Externals Commands

Martin J. Green mgreen at altien.com
Tue Aug 1 16:35:55 CEST 2006
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The .htaccess is only required if you don't have root access to the
server & thus can't add it to the main httpd.conf. If you have root
access, its almost always better to add it there. In that case you would
have no .htaccess file, it would all be in the server config.

 

M

 

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From: Deborah Martin [mailto:Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com] 
Sent: 01 August 2006 15:32
To: 'Justin Craig'
Cc: Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands

 

ok - somewhere in the nagios docs are the details with regard to setting
up .htaccess but 

 

I think there is a utility in the nagios install directory under bin
called htpasswd or htpasswd2 and you run this util to generate a
htpasswd.users file where

all the users that have web interface access are stored including
nagiosadmin. I store mine in the etc install directory. 

 

Then in my .htaccess file i have the following 

 

AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
require valid-user

 

This file resides in the sbin directory (which is also cgi-bin). Note
though - change the AuthUserFile path to wherever you are storing the
htpasswd.users file. 

 

When i was getting the 'return from whence you came error', this was
exactly my problem - i hadn't set up authorisation correctly and the
above was how i fixed it. 

 

hope this helps. 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Justin Craig [mailto:jrcraig.email at gmail.com]
	Sent: 01 August 2006 15:07
	To: Deborah Martin
	Cc: Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green;
nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands

	so obviously I RTFM or I wouldn't have got this far.  One part
that I did have questions of was the .htaccess creation, as the
documentation I read only provided  information for setting up users via
htpasswd -c and changing your authorization functionality in the CGI's
to 1. 

	 

	So I did a find / -name *.htaccess* and that file doesn't exist.
Sounds like I need one?

	 

	Sorry, there isn't anything in my /var/www/cgi-bin directory  

	 

	Is there something missed here?
	
	 

	On 8/1/06, Deborah Martin <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote: 

	can you forward the contents of the .htaccess file that resides
in the cgi-bin directory ? and a listing of the rest of the directory
including the permissions 

	

		-----Original Message-----
		From: Justin Craig [mailto: jrcraig.email at gmail.com
<mailto:jrcraig.email at gmail.com> ]
		Sent: 01 August 2006 14:46
		To: Deborah Martin
		Cc: Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green;
nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
		Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands

		i'm logged in as nagiosadmin and i have that username in
all my cgi's.  I have the sameissue, can't schedule downtime or issue
external commands with the same error.  I'm running nagios 2.4
		
		 

		On 8/1/06, Deborah Martin <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com >
wrote: 

		look at your /usr/local/nagios/sbin directory and check
a) file permissions are correct and also whether your .htaccess
authrization file is present. 

		This error is generally caused by not correctly using
.htaccess and also not configuring apache properly - check your
httpd.conf is correctly configured 

		 

			-----Original Message-----
			From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:
hpsekhon at googlemail.com <mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com> ]
			Sent: 01 August 2006 14:14
			To: Martin J. Green
			Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
			Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands

			Martin J. Green wrote: 

			I can't get external commands to work either
(appears it can't write to the file for some reason), but its so low on
my list of priorities I haven't gotten to it yet. 

			
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<mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net> ] On Behalf Of Hari
Sekhon
			Sent: 01 August 2006 13:48
			To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
			Subject: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands

			I am having real difficulty getting external
commands to work and don't full understand what's going wrong, despite
having RTFMing several times. 
			
			As an example, I log in to the web interface as
nagiosadmin via basic apache auth successfully as usual. I go to
"comments" in the left hand pane and enter one for a host but when I
click submit, I get the error: 

			"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the
specified command.

			Read the section of the documentation that deals
with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information. 
			
			Return from whence you came"
			
			As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set
right according to the docs:
			
			cgi.cfg
			
			use_authentication=1
			authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin 
	
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
			authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
			authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
			authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
			authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin 
			authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin
			
			nagios.cfg
			
			command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
			check_external_commands=1
			# NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios
to check the external
			# command file as often as possible. 
			command_check_interval=-1
			
			ll /var/nagios/ | grep rw/
			drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache  4096 Aug  1 13:28
rw/
			
			ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
			prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Aug  1 13:28
/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd| 
			
			The apache process is run by the apache user, a
member of the apache group, so has full perms to the directory and the
pipe file nagios.cmd. Nagios is run by nagios who is also a member of
the apache group.
			
			This all looks as it should be according to the
docs as far as I can see.

			What am I missing?
			
			
			Hari

			
			I think quite a lot of people have trouble with
this but a lot give up or are satisfied that the main bit is working and
don't bother with this... 
			
			does anybody have this working and if so could
you post your configs so I can see anything you have different to me?
			
			are external commands generally broken or is
there something missing in the docs/our configs/our brains? 
			
			I'm using Version 1.4.1
			
			Hari

	
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